Log, kept by Harding, relating to a whaling voyage to the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and the Okhotsk Sea; Includes descriptions of whales seen or taken, accidents and death at sea, women on ship, and ships spoken to; and crew list. Other places represented include Sao Tiago Island, Valparaiso, Honolulu, Lahaina, Agrihan Island, Hong Kong, Rarotonga, and King Island; Whaling vessel, out of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by Ephraim Harding, on voyage 5 Sept. 1849-26 May 1852 to the Falklands, Chukchi Sea, North Pacific, and South Pacific whaling grounds; owner-agent: Abraham Ashley; built at New York, N.Y., in 1832

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